I just hooked up a modem to my sparc IPX and am trying to get it going.  I
don't have anything running yet that should be using the modem.  Wanted to
start with cu to verify hardware and basic communications to modem.  This
is what happens:

cowboy-burt# cu --parity=none --line /dev/ttya --speed 9600 --debug all
cu: open (/dev/ttya): Permission denied
cu: /dev/ttya: Line in use

cowboy-burt# ls -l /dev/ttya
crw-------  1 root  wheel  12, 0 Jun 24 16:20 /dev/ttya

cowboy-burt# cat /etc/ttys | grep ttya
ttya    "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure


Any ideas?

I used to just do 

cu -s 9600 -l /dev/tty00 on my Mac with NetBSD-1.3.

Thanks

-Dan